Word: gretna
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...life abroad produced few expatriates. Gretna Campbell explained why: "America, young and wild even in the cities, is nervous, soul-searching, self-doubting-a great unexplored region. It's what I want to paint...
Mississippi's lenient marriage laws (no blood test, no waiting period, no parental consent for youngsters) have long made the state a Dixie Gretna Green. Of the state's 66,000 wedding licenses a year, 65% are drawn by out-of-staters who skip across the border from such states as Arkansas, Tennessee and Alabama to take their vows in neon-lit marriage chapels. But last week, Mississippi's hit-and-Mrs. marriage business reached the beginning of the end. Bowing to increased pressure from physicians, ministers and clubwomen, the state legislature passed and sent...
...other two: the collision of two passenger trains and a troop train at Quintinshill, near Gretna, Scotland, on May 22, 1915, which took the lives of 227; the triple collision of express and commuter trains at Harrow on Oct. 8, 1952 (TIME, Oct. 20, 1952), in which 112 were killed...